A care home boss struggling to cope with the pressures of coronavirus took his own life outside a police headquarters, an inquest heard today.
Vernon Hough was found inside his 4x4 vehicle which was parked-up in the staff car park of the Police Divisional HQ in Llay, Wales on Thursday, May 21.
A post-mortem examination found he had died from a gunshot wound and the firearm, which Mr Hough owned legally, was discovered nearby.
The grandfather and dad-of-four, of Cefn y Bedd, was a director at Gwastad Hall Nursing Home, in Wrexham, which he ran with his wife Helen.